Brahim Tall presents The Choir of Dissonance: The Creation of the Sea (2025)
he/him
22 May–20 June | de Brakke Grond
The Choir of Dissonance: The Creation of the Sea (2025) is an installation that listens as much as it speaks. Whispered voices gather in space, grow louder, from fragile, fragmented utterances into a dense, collective presence. What begins as dispersed recordings in English, French, and Portuguese gradually converges into a resonant choir. Emerging from a fleeting performance and extended through processes of collaboration and layering, the work traces how individual expression can accumulate into shared force, attending to the voice as both vulnerable and powerful – moving between intimacy and collectivity, and revealing how language, memory, identity, and expression can coalesce into a living, sonic body.
Based on a text by Marie Umuhoza.
With the voices of: Aghogho (Caro Abutoh), Aïcha Ouattara, Ashley Morgan, Brahim Tall, Emeraude Tshidibi Kabeya, Fahad Seriki, Fred Gata (Frédérick Nizeyimana Gatabazi), Gabriel Eden, Jonathan Rwaka Rutayisire, Joram Kunde Boumkwo, Junior Akwete, Kamal Tall, Kenny Mala Ngombe, Keziah Morris, Lou Cocody Valetino, Martha Canga Antonio , STACE , Uwase (Anaïs Rutayisire), Zindzi Tillot Owusu
Music composed by: Lisa Wambacq
Audio Design: David Dubois
About the artist
Brahim Tall’s practice examines the Black Body in relation to media production, and the ways in which media both generate, shape and impact the Black Experience. In his research, Tall focuses on the gazes historically produced by this relationship and attempts to disrupt and transform them by shifting their aesthetics. Rather than approaching his practice as medium-specific, he uses a wide range of mediums like film, photography, video installation, audio installation and performance. Tall’s works are in a constant ongoing process that shifts between these mediums and activates different visual languages to address the way we read and interpret the Black body. In this way he attempts to lift the veil on the mechanisms behind our naturalised interpretation of media and the conflicting biases within our gaze.
Brahim Tall will also participate in conversation during Day 2 of our Symposium.
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